Thomas Cook, the world's first travel agency in the world, was founded in 1850.

The 16th century Escorial palace of King Phillip II of Spain had 1,200 doors.

A dog was the first in space and a sheep, a duck and a rooster the first to fly in a hot air balloon.

Music was sent down a telephone line for the first time in 1876, the year the phone was invented.

Beer was the first trademarked product - British beer Bass Pale Ale received its trademark in 1876.

Playing-cards were known in Persia and India as far back as the 12th century. A pack then consisted of 48 instead of 52 cards.

Excavations from Egyptian tombs dating to 5,000 BC show that the ancient Egyptian kids played with toy hedgehogs.

Accounts from Holland and Spain suggest that during the 1500s and 1600s urine was commonly used as a tooth-cleaning agent.

Julius Caesar was the first to encode communications, using what has become known as the Caesar Cipher.

The first mention of soap was on Sumerian clay tablets dating about 2,500 BC. The soap was made of water, alkali and cassia oil.

The first animal in space was the female Samoyed husky named Laika, launched by the Soviets in 1957.

In 1958 the US sent two mice called Laska and Benjy into space.

In 1969 the US launched a male chimpanzee called Ham into space.

In 1963 the French launched a cat called Feliette into space.

Great Britain was the first county to issue postage stamps, on 1 May 1840. Hence, UK stamps are the only stamps in the world not to bear the name of the country of origin.

Napoleon's christening name was Italian: Napoleone Buonaparte. He was born on the island of Corsica one year after it became French property. As a boy, Napoleon hated the French.

John Rolfe married Pocahontas the Red Indian Princess in 1613.

Only one of the Seven Wonders of the World still survives: the Great Pyramid of Giza.

The first parachute jump from an airplane was made by Captain Berry at St. Louis, Missouri, in 1912.

On 21 June 1913, over Los Angeles, Georgia Broadwick became the first women to parachute from an airplane.

The first written account of the Loch Ness Monster, or Nessie, was made in 565AD. More on Nessie

The world's first skyscraper was the 10-storey Home Insurance office, built in Chicago in 1885. (During Roman times buildings were up to 8 storeys high.)

In ancient times, it was believed that certain colours could combat the evil spirits that lingered over nurseries. Because blue was associated with the heavenly spirits, boys were clothed in that colour, boys then being considered the most valuable resource to parents. Although baby girls did not have a colour associated with them, they were mostly clothed in black. It was only in the Middle Ages when pink became associated with baby girls.


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Cool facts, nice research.

You know this took some guts.

Well, as far as we know that was the first parachute jump. The other fifty guys were not so lucky...

HAHA WOW!!! me and Mr. ED agree on something awsome!!! this is going down in the LUCID history books!!!! =)))))

lol, fair enough. I think I may give up arguing against what seems to be everyone, that the pyramids were built be us humans (without help).

ok hahah... be that as it may.. MR. ED!!! anyways god like i said everytime i refresh bam.. ITS MR. ED!!!

gosh u like shouting his name a lot
lol

hahah i no im sorry, i luv Mr. Ed .. i started actually theorizing against him last night, so if you look at my posts or his it goes like... Ed/Lucid/Ed/Lucid..ect... hahaha.. hes a good guy though =)

lol thanks lucid. It is always interesting to read your posts

I wish there would be a really interesting discovery in the news...

ed, did you read my post on the egypitan tomb found a few weeks ago...??? look it should be on page 8 by now.. ill try n find it and link it ya

like
ALIEN BURIAL MOUNDS FOUND UNDER M3 ROADWORKS!!
REAL PHOTOS INSIDE!!
lol

lol

That certainly would be interesting (and maybe controversial).

Oh yeah thanks for that fascinating info the bayeux tapestry roswell

hahaha never realized roswell was a class act =0)...

hey guys stop winding me up eh? =)
i brought it in to keep u quiet for a while.... =)

you brought your comedy in haha.. look now me and Mr.Ed aren't battling anymore =(.... hahahaha good one ROSWELL!!!

Thats because stopped posting crazy theories

One common theme throught this recorded history link is man's inhumanity to other men.

"MAN is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief, and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another. Every man's natural weight of affliction is still made more heavy by the envy, malice, treachery, or injustice of his neighbour. At the same time that the storm beats on the whole species, we are falling foul upon one another. "

That was writtin in 200 BC. It still rings true today.

hmmmm very interesting... ive never heard that b4... thanks !!! i will remeber that..

also i just realized.. its telling us that we all are alike, like noone ever changes is what that means? so if you think about it ancient civilizations should of been like us... meaning we cant construct such vast pyramids like that by hand, which in my head means other beings helped out!!!.. unless i misinturpretted that!!! did i ?

"Only one of the Seven Wonders of the World still survives: the Great Pyramid of Giza."

Mistaken. Parthenon also exists.

what you referin to vallheru.. i dont understand what ya sayin?